comprehensus

Latin

Alternative forms

• comprensus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of comprehendō.

Participle

comprehensus m (feminine comprehensa, neuter comprehensum); first/second declension

1. taken, caught, grasped
2. arrested, detained
3. comprehended

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	comprehensus	comprehensa	comprehensum		comprehensī	comprehensae	comprehensa
genitive	comprehensī	comprehensae	comprehensī		comprehensōrum	comprehensārum	comprehensōrum
dative	comprehensō		comprehensō		comprehensīs
accusative	comprehensum	comprehensam	comprehensum		comprehensōs	comprehensās	comprehensa
ablative	comprehensō	comprehensā	comprehensō		comprehensīs
vocative	comprehense	comprehensa	comprehensum		comprehensī	comprehensae	comprehensa

Descendants

• English: comprise
• French: compris
• Italian: compreso
• Romanian: cuprins

References

• comprehensus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comprehensus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “comprehensus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have formed an ideal notion of a thing: comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere